Tag: 2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions

2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Meredith Danluck’s State Like Sleep

An artist who doesn't stay put, We thought this directorial debut would have receive the green light same time last year, but aside from...

2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Greg Kinnear’s The Philosophy of Phil

From Little Miss Sunshine to the more recent Little Men, Greg Kinnear has been part of the recent tapestry of the festival as an actor,...

2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Marius A. Markevicius’ Ashes in the Snow

We've got Drake Doremus' oft-used screenwriter in Ben York Jones, The Diary of a Teenage Girl starlet Bel Powley and a docu filmmaker who...

2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ari Gold’s American Sway

His debut film (Adventures of Power) premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, and his sophomore film project which lensed perhaps as far back...

2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Alexandre Moors’ The Yellow Bird

Once a genre that was box office poison and an area that indie film did not want to address either, there has a resurgence...

2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Benjamin/Carrillo/Kusama/St. Vincent/Vuckovic’s XX

Looking down our list, if included at this year's fest, they would be emblematic of what we believe will be the highest percentage of...

2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Kate & Laura Mulleavy’s Woodshock

We imagine they just didn't quit their day jobs, so it might have been a longer post production gestation period for the first time...

2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Joe Swanberg’s Win It All

While he was busy delivering the Netflix Series 'Easy,' January to November 2016 will have came and went and we will not have heard...

2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Craig Johnson’s Wilson

Now pegged with a March 24th date via Fox Searchlight, despite it not being an acquisitions title, Craig Johnson's Wilson could still land in...

2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Fritz Böhm’s Wildling

Sundance’s 2015 breakout starlet Bel Powley stars in a project that is being Let The Right One In and maybe a pinch of The Babadook. Prior...

2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Andrew Dosunmu’s Where is Kyra?

Andrew Dosunmu left quite the mark with his Sundance preemed micro-indie (Restless City) and macro indie (Mother of George) offerings and now he turns...

2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Lake Bell’s What’s The Point?

We heart Lake Bell's head, specifically what's inside it. In a World... not only took us by surprise, but it took the home the Waldo...

2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Stacie Passon’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle

She's one of our favorites and thankfully it hasn't been too long a wait between her tough as nails dramatic debut Concussion (starring the...

2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Peer Pedersen’s We Don’t Belong Here

He worked on a couple of titles as a producer including the TIFF preemed Megan Griffiths' Lucky Them (2013) and the Sundance preemed, unfathomably...

2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Untitled Madeleine Olnek Emily Dickinson Project

We were a little too early with this prognostication, and we don't yet have an official title, but we're now thinking it's time for...

2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Untitled Joshua Z Weinstein Hassidic Film Project

For the better part of the last decade, the cinematographer/additional photographer has built himself an incredibly vast curriculum vitae and perhaps 2017 is when...

2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Untitled David Lowery Project

There was a sense that something was being cooked up, but for all we knew, the members on Ain't Them Bodies Saints were having...

2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: The Untitled Amir Bar-Lev Grateful Dead Documentary Project

Sundance has been especially welcoming to Amir Bar-Lev with My Kid Could Paint That (2007) and The Tillman Story (2010) and Happy Valley (2014) having all premiered at the...

2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Martin McDonagh’s Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

While his brother (John Michael McDonagh) appears to enjoy the Park City backdrop (The Guard, Calvary) so does this Londoner / short film Oscar...

2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Danny Boyle’s T2: Trainspotting

Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose this sequel as the special screening at Sundance and all will be forgiven for when...

2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Cory Finley’s Thoroughbred

Featuring two current "it" actresses, a young playwright making his directorial debut and one of the last performances from Anton Yelchin, Thoroughbred could be...

2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jennifer Fox’s The Tale

Not unlike Gabriela Cowperthwaite, here is the example of another female docu filmmaker who broke out at Sundance and has now climbed into fiction narrative territory....

2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jeffrey Blitz’s Table 19

We thought that Fox Searchlight would have dropped this at last year's Sundance or sometime in 2016, but the distribution have pegged it for...

2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Yance Ford’s Strong Island

You can't rush a good thing, and you certainly can't rush a project that is not that far removed from one' self. We've been...

2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Christopher Radcliff & Lauren Wolkstein’s The Strange Ones

If Christopher Radcliff & Lauren Wolkstein's directing debut shores up in Park City it'll be its second stint. The filmmaking pair introduced The Strange...

2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Meredith Danluck’s State Like Sleep

She hit the triple crown of Sundance Institute workshops as a participant in the 2013 Screenwriters, Directors and Sundance Institute Music and Sound Design...